Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -
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- Ter, Than cither oF the Mints in EI Or T, Whose purgins, another astringent. In briet, Thac chere Moule
- Nacex Wwas the very Came wich chat in L, bur hac
- be thac vast difterence in chem, in cheir leverat
- none oF chac Parch mixed vich ic, vec in a Morr Constirutions, Mates, Properties, and tiffects, and
- time, ehe Plane noc only overrock, buc much oue
- Erive those; and at the end oF che Experimenc
- was rery considerabis bisser and tcarier chan ei
- chec oF them.
- Inlitce manner, iHe Mint in N, tho lets in che
- becimnins chan chat in MI, being ser in har thict
- rurbid, fecuient Water thac remained behind, after
- thac Wherein M WvaS Placed was silled of, had in
- tine more than double is original Weighe and
- Bulk; and receired abore tvice che additiona
- Fncrease chac ehat in NI, Wvhich Aood in chinner
- distilled Water, haddone: And, which is nor lel
- considerable, had noc draon of half che quan
- tirs ot Wacer chac that had.
- Nhy, in che beginmine ot this Aricle, F limi
- che Proxorrion oEche Ausmene oF the Plant, torhe
- Quancier ot the proper Terrestrial Macrer in che
- Nater, is, Because all, even che resetable Matrer
- E0 Cay nochins OFThe Mineral, IS NOE PTOPEF FOrFhC
- Wourishiment oF erery Plant.
- There may be, and doubrless are, some Parrs ir
- different Species oF Planrs, tharmar be muct alitce
- anci O oe cheir Supply ro thelame common Mat
- ter: Buc eis plain, all cannor. And chere are orter
- Parrs (0 disterine, thac ris no ways crediblecher
- Ehould be formed all our of the lame Porr ot Corpus
- cles: S0 tar From ic, tharthere ane noc go0d In
- dications, as We Mall sec by and bY, Thac ererr kinc
- OF resetable requires a peculiar and specitick Matte
- LF iis Formarion and Nourithmene; rea, cach pari
- oF the Came Vecetable does o; and there are verr
- many and differene Ingredients 50 ro the Composi
- tion of the lame indiriduat PlanE.
- Htrheretore the Soil, wherein any Vegetable o
- Seed is planted, conrains all or most ot chese In
- Gredienes, and chole in due Ouanciey, rwill gron
- and chrire chere; ochermise tvill nor. IF chere
- DC nOE aS manz POrE OF Corpuscles, 25 are requisire
- For the Constitution ot che main and more essentia
- Pares oF the Planc, evill noc prosper ac aII. J.
- There be chele, and noc in sufficient plener, twil
- Scarre, and never arrire tO itS natural Stature. O
- it ehiere be any the sels necessary and essential C Or.
- pulcles wancins, chere will De Pome Failure in che
- Plant; will be defectire in Faste, in Smell, in C0.
- lour, or Lome orher Way.
- But tho the CTacCO LaH IIIaS HaPPen nOE cC
- contain proper Nouristimene For che Consticuriono
- Pome one peculiat kind oF Plant; ver it may for
- several orhers, and chole much disterins amone
- themselves.
- herc.)
- vet all arise from che very lame sort oF Matter
- vould be very Atrange. And, ro Nore chat by che
- br, ehis Argumene makces equally Arons against
- chole wrho suppose mere Water che Matter our ot
- Wrhich all Bodies are Formed.
- The Catapuria, in the Gla(S F, received BuE very
- licle Fncreale, ony chree Grains and an haIF all
- the wrhile it RoOd, tho 25OY Cr. OE Water vere
- spene upon it. L Will nor Pay the reason Was, BC.
- cause che Water did noc contain in ic Matrer A
- and proper For rhie Nouristment ot thac peculiar
- and remarkable Plant. No, ic may be, the WVacer
- Was noc a prover Medium For ic to sro in: And
- we lno, chereare rerrmans Planes chac ill nor
- chrireinie
- To0 muck OF Chat Liquor, in lome Plants, may
- probably hurer che Terrestrial Macrer chro cheir
- Vessels t0o fast Tor them ro arrest and lay hold OE
- it. Be chat as ic will, tis most certain, Phere arC
- reculiar Soils chac suit particular Planes
- In Fnsland, Cherries are obserred to succeed best
- in Rent; Apples in Peresorastire; Sassron in Cam-
- bridestoire; Woad in cro or three ot our Midlana
- Counties; aud Teazles in Somorsetstire. This is an
- Obserration thac hachheld in all Parrs, and indeed
- in aIl Ases oltheWontd. The most ancient WVri
- ters oF Fusbandry took NoricC OF ic; and are nOL
- ancins in cheir Rules, For malcins choice oF soit
- fuited eo che Nature oF each kind oF Vesetable they
- thoughe raluable or orch Propasacins
- Buc, erhich is a Further Proot oF Whar Lam here
- endearourins to Adranee, That Soil chat is once
- proper and sc for Production ot some one (Ort ol
- Vecetable, does noc erer continue to be (0. No, in
- ctact oF Time, ic loles that Property; buc soonet
- in lome Lands, and later in Orhers. This is what
- all, vrho are converlant inchele Thinss, Hnou very
- avell.
- IE rbeat Tor Fxample, be sonnuxon a Tract
- OF Land thac is proverFor rhac Grain, the first Crop
- Will succced very vell, and perhaps the second, and
- the thira, 25 lons as che Cround is in Feart, a5
- the Farmers Speak: Buc in a fer Tears Twill pro.
- duce no more, il sowed wich chat Corn. Some
- ocher Grain indeed ic maz, as Barler. And alter
- this has been sovon (0 otcen, thac che Land can
- brins Forth no more of the same, ic may alterwards
- riela lome sood Oars, and perhaps Pease attet
- them: ac lensth trill become Barren; che Veceta-
- sive Marter chat ac sirst ir abounded withal, beins
- reduced forrh oF it by those successive Crops, anc
- mostof ir born OH. Fach Porr ot Grain cakes Forch
- thac peculiar Matrer that is proper For iis ovn
- Nouristmen. First che Wbeat dras oR chole
- Particles char suit che Body oF thaE Plant, che rest
- Irins all quiet and undisturb d che while. And when
- che Farrh has vielded ux aIl them; those chat are
- Proper For Barley, 2 disserent Grain, remain sil
- Behind, rill the successire CrOpS OF That Corn Fetct
- them FOrtH 10O: And (0 the Oars and Pease in their
- eurn, eill in sine all is carried ort, and che Farch in
- a greac meature drained oE chac Cort oE Mar-
- TCt.
- AEcer all Wvtrich, thac very Lract ot Land may
- be broughe eo produce anocher series oF the Pame
- Vecetables, bur nerer rill’eis supplied wich a new
- contained. This Supply is made sereral Wways. B.
- Eain
- TheVeselr l’articles are commixt and blendes
- in EhC FarE, Wh aII ehe diversur alte rates, do
- Wvell a5 all ene ancercaines comcetracte. IL hare
- siren loite menmations oF this in Nat. TTist. of tho
- Farth, PaSC 228, 9c. and MaII nOE repeat them
- Te is nor postiblero imagine, bon ono, uniform
- Bomogeneous Master, harins its Principles dr originat
- Parrs all oF che lame Substance, Constitution, Mag
- nicude, Firure, and Gravity, Mhould ever constiture
- Bodies (0 cxregiousr untitce, in all chole respects,
- 25 Vecetables oF ditterene kinds are; nay, cven 25
- the ditterent parrs oF the lame Vezetable: Phat one
- Mould Carry a Rosinous, anocher a Milter, a chird a
- Tellom, 2 Fourch a Red fuice in ies Veins; one aF-
- Ford a fracrant, anocher an ofsensive Smell; one be Fund OE Matrer oF che like lore with chat it at Ars
- sveetro che Paste, anocher bitter, acid, acerb, austere, ecc.
- Chac one deoula benoncishins. anochee poisonon one une crouadio lyime Palon lo tome cme, il cle
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